Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1887-11-10

that their husbands anu children, TO
use biblical expression, rise up aud
call them blessed.
II dare say you thought that women
who engage in st0ck-rylising were all
centaurs. Come now. didn't yOu9"
continued the cattleman. "Rid;ng
like the wind. half-clad, their tresses
flying behind them. and all the rest of
ID, for all the orld like picture from
mythology. Confess now, didn't You?
IL assure you, you could not have
had q more erroneous impression.
Stock-women are much like Others.
save that they have wider Judgment
on practical subjects They are thor.
ouehiy business-like, because they an.
preciate the vast interests which they
have at stake, and the quick concep-
ton with which all women are gifted
enables them to see clearly what the
inevitable results would be of one
false move. They know that their
decisions must be well weighed; that
they must act only under the most
careful consideration, and that once
having acted they must abide by their
decision with a calm, unswerving
spirit. 1t is a good training-school for
q woman. 1t takes all that idiotic
nonsense about nerves out of her and
gives her a brain--a cool, common
sense poise which many man might
envy.
There are necessarily exceptions to
all rules. The uncOuth woman of the
ranch, who rounds up her own herds
and who sleeps in the saddle, is not
altogether creature of the ilnagina-
ton. Uncouth and ignorant she may
be, but she is always good woman
and one whom all the cowboys respect.
know several instances where these
women can swing lariat like man
and know quite as well how to manage
herd. A very few of them person
ally supervise their own animals, how
sver, and these in most instances are
those who have not yet accumulated
much wealth, although there are some
very rich cattle-women in Colorado
who ride after their. own herds. This,
however, is, very unusual. A woman
usually manages her cattle through a
foreman, whom she often supplies
with brain-power. She does not
usually live on the ranch. but rather
in handsome house in some neigh
boring town. But all the same she is
the bone and sinew of the business.
Her clear head manages it all, and it
is through her directions that her fore
man always proceeds. She often
spends the summer on the ranch,
where comfortable dwelling is fitted
up for her, much on the order of an
English shooting-box.
Colorado women generally have
gone into the stock business" con-
cluded the cattleman, through n
direct line of inheritance, that is, they
have inherited either small herds, vast
ones, or a taste and inclination for the
life. know of numerous instances
where a father has died leaving his
daughter very small herd, and she
has gone steadily on with it, making
thousands where her father before her
made hundreds of dollars. Again
there are widows who have come into
possession of vast stock interests
through the death of their husbands,
and who have managed the business
left to them until its receipts run away
up in the millions.
II know resolute women too, who
began without dollar, and who have
gained wealth and standing in the
stock business. The most highly novel
sight / ever saw was a fourteen-year-
old girl herding cattle away up in
Montana, with only her little brother
to assist her. The father of these two
children had died, leaving them a
small herd Of cattle, and | would be
willing to wager my last dollar that
that little brown-skinned girl away up
there in that wilderness will yet count
her dollars by the thousands. Of the
800 stock-women now doing business
in Colorado, all are well and favor
ably known among cattle and sheep
men, any one of whom would gladly
befriend them in case of an emerg-
ency, but whom. on the other hand,
they are quite capable of advising in
many practicable matters relating to
stock-raising. - Denver Republican.